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Show 231 a tuxedo was excellent. Making the bracelets temporarily unnecessary was not. What keeps Wonder Woman interesting in spite of the very specific agendas that she has been written to promote is the life and complexity of the character herself. "Lessons" a twelve year-old could conceivably derive from Wonder Woman: get back up; keep yourself in check; good is stronger than evil; good and evil exist; be confident; sometimes it's good to submit; speed is important but so is thorough research; bondage is fun; girls are strong, too; matriarchy now!; buy war bonds; wear red boots; duty before love; don't listen to your boss; don't listen to your boyfriend; don't listen to your mother; the Japanese are conniving; Nazis are everywhere; this is what a woman should look like. Cut: Back in the forest, Wonder Woman and Andros approach his "well-hidden" spaceship, half of which protrudes from the ground like a Vegas arch, lightly obscured by a few bushes and two Aspen trees. They have just escaped Nazi forces who did not believe Andros when he explained that he had been sent to earth by the concerned Alien Council in order to determine whether the humans' increased knowledge of atomic power meant they needed to be contained before they could harness that power destructively on the rest of the universe. The Nazis Andros met with instead insisted-despite his silver suit and gold necklace that could control the weather-that Andros was not an alien but a prominent American physicist who could be forced into contributing valuable information to their development of nuclear weapons. The |
